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Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1Quran 2:156:5

قَالُوٓا۟

Forms

Computed · derived from the Uthmani text
Uthmani (as written)
قَالُوٓا۟ Quranic text
Simple
قَالُوٓا
Without tashkeel
قالوا
Normalised (searchable)
قالوا

Position

Computed
Surah
2 · The Cow
Verse
2:156
Word in verse
5
Token id
quran:tanzil-uthmani:2:156:5

Morphology

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)
Gloss
they say,
Transliteration
qālū
Root
ق و لq-w-l
Lemma
قالَ
Part of speech
Verb (V)
Features
tense: PERFperson: 3gender: Mnumber: pluralverb_form: 1

Sub-word segments

  1. قَالُstem · V · ق و ل
  2. وٓا۟suffix · PRON

Morphology is an external annotation from the Leeds Quranic Arabic Corpus, licensed GPL-2.0-or-later. It is not Quranic text and never alters the token.

In context

Quranic text · Tanzil Uthmani 1.1

How translators rendered it

Translation · 4 editions

These translations render verse 2:156 — the whole verse this word appears in — not this word alone. The correspondence is verse-level: no word-level alignment of translations exists for these editions, so we do not claim which English word renders this Arabic word. Compare the editions →

Those who, when a calamity afflicts them, say, “To God we belong, and to Him we will return.”
Translation · Talal Itani (2012)CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Who say, when a misfortune striketh them: Lo! we are Allah's and lo! unto Him we are returning
Translation · Marmaduke Pickthall (1930)Public Domain
Who when a mischance chanceth them, say, "Verily we are God's, and to Him shall we return
Translation · John Medows Rodwell (1861)Public Domain
who when there falls on them a calamity say, 'Verily, we are God's and, verily, to Him do we return
Translation · Edward Henry Palmer (1880)Public Domain

Same form · 77 occurrences

Computed

This exact written form قَالُوٓا۟ appears 77 times in the corpus.

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Root ق و ل · 1722 occurrences

Morphology · Leeds QAC (GPL)

The root ق و ل occurs 1722 times across 146 distinct forms.

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